1. What was the likely connection between the nature of politics and science in ancient Greece?
2. What was the likely connection between the nature of religion and science in ancient Greece?
3. What was the fundamental difference between the Greek approach to science and those of other ancient cultures?
4. What were the causes and results of the Greek and Persian wars?
5. What were the causes and results of the Peloponnesian war?
6. In what way was the tradition of pre-Socratic science and philosophy continued during the Greek classical period?
7. What contributions were made to Medicine, Philosophy, and History during the Greek classical period?
8. Compare and contrast the Greek and the Persian states (politically and geographically) during the period of the Persian Wars.
9. What were the reasons behind the victory of Macedonia over the ‘Southern' Greeks?
10. What explains Alexander's successes as a military commander?
11. What was the size of Alexander's empire at his death and what had his plan been for his empire?
12. How was Alexander's empire divided after his death and who took control of the most valuable parts?
13. What was the nature of Hellenistic kingdoms and what characterized the relationship between Greeks and non-Greeks?
14. What were the most important legacies of Alexander and the Hellenistic monarchies?